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[email protected] EUROPE / SPRING 2017 TOUR ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC MARCH 23–APRIL 7, 2017 ALAN GILBERT’S NINTH AND FINAL INTERNATIONAL TOUR AS MUSIC DIRECTOR TOUR TO INCLUDE CONCERTS IN COPENHAGEN, LUXEMBOURG, DÜSSELDORF, ESSEN, BUDAPEST, VIENNA, LONDON The Philharmonic’s FIRST RETURN to ANTWERP Since 1920 Performances at the New ELBPHILHARMONIE in HAMBURG Third International Associate Residency at London’s BARBICAN CENTRE To Feature the European Premiere of Esa-Pekka SALONEN’s New Cello Concerto with YO-YO MA John ADAMS 70th Birthday Celebration Works by BARTÓK, BERLIOZ, and MAHLER Education Activities Including a VERY YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT Former Artist-in-Residence FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN To Perform PROKOFIEV’s Violin Concerto No. 1 CHRISTINA LANDSHAMER To Perform MAHLER’s Symphony No. 4 The EUROPE / SPRING 2017 Tour Is Sponsored by J.C. Flowers & Co. Generous Support Is Provided by Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis NEW YORK — Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic on the EUROPE / SPRING 2017 tour, March 23–April 7, 2017. The two-week tour — Alan Gilbert’s ninth and final international tour as Music Director, the seventh with him to Europe — will feature fourteen concerts in seven countries. The Orchestra will perform in Antwerp, Belgium; Luxembourg; Düsseldorf, Essen, and Hamburg, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; Vienna, Austria; London, England; and Copenhagen, Denmark.